"Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > "Chris R" <car### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> >
> > > To prove my spline layout code is correct, I created some tools for converting a
> > > spline whose values have an arbitrary range into a spline whose values go from
> > > 0.0 to the computed length of the spline over the given range of values.  Using
> > > a spline that has been tuned this way gave a much better result in laying out
> > > the text.
> >
> > are you aware that there are spline macros to do this sort of thing?
> > IIRC, they are in transforms.inc
> >
> > - BW
>
> I knew in the back of my head that I had used the Spline_Trans macro before, but
> couldn't remember what it was called or where it was.  Thanks!
>
> I'll probably create a new version of my Text Spline alignment macro and replace
> my code for computing the rotations with this, which allow for banking the text
> as well, which would be cool.
>
> The macro still has to do the work of computing the offset based on the letter
> spacing, and then using this macro to do the placement and orientation.  And I
> haven't seen anything equivalent to the code I wrote to convert a Spline using
> arbitrary values with a Spline that uses distances along the spline curve for
> values, so I think that's still useful.
>
> -- Chris R

Time to move on, but here's the previous image using the new macro using
Spline_Trans with a Banking value of 1.0.  I used a more interesting font as
well.  The banking is subtle, but you can see it on the downward curve around
the "good people" section.

-- Chris R

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